Category: Asia

A Cool Photo - Miya Jima
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A Cool Photo – Miya Jima

I’m playing with experimenting with technology today at Inside the Travel Lab. So here’s a cool photo from the island of Miya Jima (Shrine Island) in Japan to keep you entertained while I meddle with connections to Inside the Travel Lab’s Facebook Page.
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Thai Rain
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Thai Rain

Rain changes a landscape as much as it changes our behaviour. Yet because taking photos in the rain is a miserable experience, accompanied by the nagging concern about camera damage, most photos show places radiating with sunshine.

Here are…

Folding Prayers in Japan
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Folding Prayers in Japan

Across Japan, amidst the crowds or within the privacy of solitude, people read their fortunes and say their prayers. Depending on whether they like what they read, they tie the paper in neat knots outside the temple.

Ransom - A Travel Book on Japan
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Ransom – A Travel Book on Japan

As a thriller, I enjoyed this book almost until its conclusion, however as a travelogue I loved it all the way through.

Tracking Panda Bears in China
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Tracking Panda Bears in China

With only 2000 pandas left on the planet, they can be tricky to track down. In Chengdu

Hiroshima Today
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Hiroshima Today

As the sleek shinkansen train slid into Hiroshima station, I admit I felt nervous. Yet for all the studies and reports, I was still unprepared for what I saw.

Wild Swans - Jung Chang
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Wild Swans – Jung Chang

Without a doubt, Wild Swans influenced my travels more than any other book. Detailed, intense and unflinching, it tells the story of girls with bound feet, Mao’s revolution and the famines and doctrines…

Tigers are not the only fruit...
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Tigers are not the only fruit…

With only 4000 left on the planet – a tiger obsession seeps through travellers shivering in safari jeeps

Old Memories of Saudi
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Old Memories of Saudi

I see my mother,through falling leaves of disjointed flashbacks, as a swirl of black-liquorice fabric. I taste the chlorine and smell the rubber arm-bands from learning to…